The Backyardigans stories feature five high-spirited friends who use their imagination to embark on epic adventures. In every episode their backyard transforms into a fantastic photo-real landscape that serves as the backdrop to their musical adventure. The annual is great for all Backyardigans fans who will enjoy the stories & puzzles & will be inspired to use their imaginations to do amazing things just like Uniqua Pablo Tyrone Tasha & Austin. ...

Step into Limehouse Wharf the new uber-luxury apartment building in Canary Wharf where celebrities who have had work done can hole up until they have healed & which is about to see its most glamorous & scandalous Christmas yet. Staying there over the festive period is Melody Down an actress whose career is in tatters after too much plastic surgery & who has fled LA to get her body & her boyfriend back. But is a well-meaning friend about to sabotage all of Melodys Christmas wishes? Meanwhile Aniela Fatyga the nurse in residence finds herself falling for the unlikely Jon Jordan an assassin for hire who is also convalescing there. Will her feelings be reciprocated or will their sizzling relationship remain purely physical? & who is he on the run from? & then theres oligarch Grigor Khalofsky the owner of Kensington football team whose legendary Christmas party is about to get a whole lot more exciting when murder blackmail & scandalous revelations decide to pay a visit along with Santa. ...

Louise Hart has endured a great deal of pain from her callous husband Paul but one cold December night in 1959 she can take no more. She & her son Davey escape their Coventry high-rise flat & flee to Tanglewood the dilapidated ivy-clad mansion where her mother Dolly runs an animal sanctuary. Miserable & frightened Louise longs to turn her back on the past & create a happy new life for Davey. But Paul is in trouble with men more dangerous than himself. Unable to pay his debts he blackmails Louise & those who love her keeping a shadowy presence in their lives. Even the arrival of Charlie Fox a stranger who becomes a true friend cannot guarantee that the future will be safe... ...

Bad Becky is cheeky opinionated & always in some kind of trouble. But you can't help loving her! I mean wouldn't you rather hear a story about a princess who gets gobbled up by the dragon rather than another soppy one where the prince saves the Princess? & if a magician at a party was rubbish wouldn't you point it out? & who wants their horrible Great Aunt Mildred visiting? So really Becky is just doing everyone a favor... The first book in a wickedly funny new series for readers gaining confidence. Bad Becky's got attitude! ...

Bad Becky is cheeky (but charming) opinionated & always in some kind of trouble. But you can't help loving her! I mean wouldn't you rather hear a story about a princess who gets gobbled up by the dragon rather than another soppy one where the prince saves the princess? & if a magician at a party was rubbish wouldn't you point it out? & who wants their horrible Great Aunt Mildred visiting? So really Becky is just doing everyone a favour.. .A wickedly funny new series for readers gaining confidence. Bad Becky's got attitude! ...

Readers everywhere will be entranced by bestselling Sheila O' Flanagan's unputdownable novel of friendship love & sweet revenge. Darcey & Nieve were best friends for life. Until Nieve stole the heart of Aidan the boy Darcey had fallen in love with while Nieve was travelling. Aidan was going to propose the very night Nieve caught his eye & Darcey had seen the ring. For the next ten years she's haunted by the memory of her humiliation. No career success no comfort her eccentric but loving family can offer not even (short-lived) marriage to Neil can console her. & then the invitation comes: to the wedding of Aidan & Nieve neither of whom she's seen since they left Ireland for life in the USA. They're coming home to have the wedding of a lifetime at Ireland's most expensive hotel. Will Darcey be there? Will there be fireworks? & can the past be put to rest at last? ...

For Jeremy Whittle there isnt much in life as spectacular as the Tour de France: sweat-streaked taut & burnished athletes toiling across vast & ancient European landscapes hundreds of thousands of fans lining the route. The twisting Mediterranean roads the jerseys the peloton in full flight
- these have become as familiar to him as the lines around his eyes. & then there are the riders: men of almost superhuman capabilities men who have become his friends men whose stories he has written day in day out for the past decade. But even the biggest fan can one day wake up to find that he has lost his faith. We all want to believe in our heroes. Thats why Jeremy got into cycling. But what happens when you cant? When youve seen too many positive dope tests when youve been lied to too many times when your sport is destroying itself from within? Bad Blood" is the story of Jeremy Whittles journey from unquestioning fan to Tour de France insider & confirmed sceptic. Its about broken friendships & a sport divided; about having to choose sides in the war against doping; about how galloping greed & corporate opportunism have led the Tour de France to the brink of destruction. Part personal memoir part devastating expose of a sport torn apart by drugs & scandal " Bad Blood" is a love letter to one mans past & a warning to cyclings future."
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KATE SHUGAK is a native Aleut working as a private investigator in Alaska. Shes 5 foot 1 inch tall carries a scar that runs from ear to ear across her throat & owns half-wolf half-husky dog named Mutt. Resourceful strong-willed defiant Kate is tougher than your average heroine
- & she needs to be to survive the worst the Alaskan wilds can throw at her. BAD BLOOD: One hundred years of bad blood between two Alaskan villages come to a boil when the body of a young Kushtaka man is found wedged in a fish wheel. Sergeant Jim Chopins prime suspect is a Kuskulana man who is already in trouble in both villages for falling in love across the river. But when he disappears both tribes refuse to speak to Jim
- so when theres a second murder which looks suspiciously like payback Jim calls on Kate Shugak for help. Now Kate must untangle the village tales of tragedy & revenge if she is to find the truth before its too late...

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Detective Paul Hjelm member of an elite Swedish team assembled to investigate violent international crime receives an urgent call from the FBI offices in America. A man has been found murdered at New York airport. The killer's violent methods bear a frightening resemblance to those of the notorious ' Kentucky Killer' a serial killer who was thought to have died some years before in a car crash witnessed by an FBI agent. The FBI believe that the killer has boarded a flight to Sweden but when the plane lands in Stockholm he escapes without being identified. Soon the bodies begin to pile up
- some bearing the hallmarks of the Kentucky Killer's signature torture device: a weapon that squeezes shut the vocal chords. Has he somehow returned from the dead or do they have a copy-cat on their hands? & what does the killer want in Sweden?
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Banks isnt back & thats the problem. If DCI Alan Banks had been in his office when his old neighbour came calling perhaps it would have turned out differently. Perhaps an innocent man would still be alive. & perhaps Bankss daughter wouldnt be on the run with a wanted man. But Banks is on holiday blissfully unaware of the terrible chain of events set in motion by the discovery of a loaded gun in a young womans bedroom & his daughters involvement with the ultimate bad boy.. . ...